tirelessly and courageously to find them i spoke with governor manchin of west virginia last night and told him the federal government stands ready to offer whatever assistance is needed in this rescue effort. >> jay gray joins us from montcoal, west virginia, with the very latest. jay? >> yeah, melissa. there is some frustration about those questions you talked about. about the safe practices in the mine. viilations over the last couple months for air quality and crumbling walls inside the mine, those kinds of things. over the last year, more than $380,000 in fines, but right now for most here, that's on the back burner. they're more focused on trying to find the four men that are still missing here. that's a process that's going to take some time. what they're going to do is drill 1,100 feet through the mine here to release some of the methane gas which has built up and keeping rescue crews out. miners are trained to rush to when there is any kind of emergency inside the mine shaft, those areas contain, food, water and enough oxygen for them to survive for 96 hours. time is of the essence